Connecting Childhood Wariness to Adolescent Social Anxiety through the Brain and Peer Experiences.

ABSTRACT: Wariness in early childhood manifests as shy, inhibited behavior in novel social situations and is associated with increased risk for developing social anxiety. In youth with childhood wariness, exposure to a potent social stressor, such as peer victimization, may potentiate brain-based sensitivity to unpredictable social contexts, thereby increasing risk for developing social anxiety. To test brain-based associations between early childhood wariness, self-reported peer victimization, and current social anxiety symptoms, we quantified neural responses to different social contexts in low- and high-victimized pre-adolescents with varying levels of early childhood wariness. Measures of early childhood wariness were obtained annually from ages 2-to-7-years. At age 11, participants were charact

SUBMITTER: Jarcho JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6628896 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature